Is Humanistic Knowledge Useless?

Our series of reflections on the place of the humanities in graduate education continues with this exchange between Point founding editor Jon Baskin and Michael Lipkin, the academic director of the Program for Public Thinking. Following on Ben Jeffery and Becca Rothfeld’s earlier exchange, Jon and Mike ask: What does it mean to say humanistic scholars “produce knowledge” in the first place? And is it important to ask what this knowledge is “for”?